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Going Down Swinging is one of Australia’s longest-running and most respected literary journals: publishing digital as well as print and audio anthologies since 1979 and producing sensational, sold-out live events.
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Where fierce, fresh writing lives. Here you’ll find opinions, profiles, poetry, stories, reviews, treasures from our archives and food for the mind. All the things you need to go down swinging.

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Everything from sound projects to spoken word, from past editions and new content commissioned for online publication.

Articles:

Articles

From the DJ Booth: Going Down Swinging 37 Launch Party

DJ and poet Sean M. Whelan looks back at the launch party that was.
Articles

Looking For Daisy Pearce
Articles

Crossing the Nullarbor: Part One
Articles

The Prophet Effect

Articles

Video: Rudyard Kipling Animation

Our digital editor, Vanessa Hughes, has been working on a new series of short animations exploring the Just So Stories of beloved children’s author Rudyard Kipling. Using her favoured...
Articles

Bitcoins; or, The Time I Was Almost a Millionaire

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Stories and Poems:

Stories & Poems

On the Radar...

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The Night’s Insomnia ‘When the angels are panting and scratching the door to come in …’  Leonard Cohen, 2012 If the night is long, and there can be no...
Stories & Poems

Excerpt from 'The Old Woman's Tale'
Stories & Poems

He Carried Oranges
Stories & Poems

Notes from the Desperate Capitol of Somnopolis

Stories & Poems

Wit-Bix Psychological Analysis

Excerpt from The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries — the new book from Justin Heazlewood. It’s a casual, slightly dead-shit Wednesday in Melbourne. I’m onstage, doing my bit about ‘Australia the...
Stories & Poems

Crowdsourcing Stories with Amazon's Mechanical Turk

On Writing:

On Writing

PRISM International: Tweeting Stories

Social media isn’t exactly new, but it’s still something that writers have only recently begun experimenting with.
On Writing

Prism Writing Prompt: Haters Gonna Hate
On Writing

The Meditations Part V: Melissa Howard on 'The Beginner's Guide to Travelling With Children'
On Writing

Little Black Diaries

On Writing

Reconciling Creativity with Copy

It was the late ‘90s and I found myself riffing poetry for a then start-up company calling itself ‘Crumpler’. These bike couriers had realised the bags they’d sewn for...
On Writing

The Meditations Part VII: Eric Yoshiaki Dando on 'The Novel Teacher'

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